Michael Jordan

In order to convey to the new generations who is the greatest basketball player of all time, there is a need to convey Michael Jordan’s biography because he defined impossible, passion, greatness, icon and he was and still is a role model to many. In your own words, how do you define “the greatest player of all time” in basketball? Here is how I define it, the greatest player of all time is the man who has the attributes like: leadership, passion, perseverance, selflessness, confidence, speed, strength, athleticism, clutch, MVP, all-star, and lastly championships. These attributes may sound like too much, but for Michael Jordan these qualities are inborn to him because he has them all. Of all the basketball players you may ask, why Michael Jordan? A little of his biography will tell you why.

Michael Jordan was from an average family, of two older brothers, one older sister, and one younger sister. He started playing basketball with one of the two brothers, and all of the time he lost. Because of his competitive nature, he practiced a lot for the sake of beating his brother. At this stage, I could infer how much MJ wanted to win at an early age. His motivation and inspiration were shaped at this young age that’s why he could persevere for elevated skills. He was once cut from the high school varsity team. Yes, MJ was cut from the varsity team because he wasn’t good enough. He took that as a challenge, so he practiced, practiced, and practiced. He did join the varsity after the summer. In this point of time, he had developed passion and perseverance. At the University of North Carolina, he was the first freshman player in college to be a starter for Dean Smith. For your information, in Dean Smith’s legendary career he had never started a freshman, but he did for MJ. The difficulty of a freshman in starting is like finding a needle in the Pacific Ocean, yes, that’s how good MJ was. In MJ’s college career he won freshman player of the year and multiple All American’s. He was also an Olympic gold medallist. At this point of time I can see that he had developed passion, perseverance, and now speed, strength, and athleticism. In the 1984 NBA draft, he was drafted number three by the Chicago Bulls. During his rookie year he won the rookie of the year award against batch mates like Kareem, Charles, and John. Yes, they sounded right, these three players are three of the NBA 50 Greatest Players of All Time and yet MJ won the rookie of the year?! At this point of time I can feel that he added to his attributes with confidence and all-star. He did developed into a leader and reached to conference finals but never to the finals. He had won MVP’s, defensive player of the year, scoring titles, and all-star MVP but never a championship in the 80’s because of mistrust in his teammates and there were always problems when it comes to teamwork. But it was not like MJ is a ball hog or something, it was just that his teammates were not that good to assist MJ until Scott Pippen arrived and things started to get better. During the run of the 90’s he developed this selflessness and this was the decade when he was winning 6 championships. Even at the age of nearly 40 with the Washington Wizards he could still score 40 points, 50 points, and what’s more amazing is he is the only 40 year-old man that could score those points at nearly 40 years old. “He retired with 32,292 points in regular season play, placing him third on the NBA's all-time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.”- written in Wikipedia. MJ is not playing professional basketball anymore; he is now a part owner of Charlotte Bobcats.

From the 80’s to the 90’s and now the 21st century, there are still millions and millions of fans that support MJ, this may because he is such a big figure in the basketball world. For me, MJ is like oil in my car because without his source of power, my car would not move. For your information, I am a basketball player, so for me MJ is basketball. He is such a brilliant and terrific man on the court and off the court, that’s why I like him like the Mount Everest (that much, that big), for me admiration is like infinity, no boundaries, because he is my hero. Until now I am still hearing people talking about MJ and how he was dominating the game before unlike the players now, these compliments are telling me that MJ is still the best compared to the modern players of today. He is so legendary because he started from nothing, but now he has everything that’s why he is really a great role model to be learned with. He is the only man in the history of basketball that has the privilege to be called the greatest player of all time. You name it, achievements, skills, morality, understanding of the game, charisma, and etc, he has them all. From the start of his basketball life from having one on one against his elder brother to winning 6 NBA championships I can see that he has gone through a lot of processes and slowly but surely he attain these attributes: leadership, passion, perseverance, selflessness, confidence, speed, strength, athleticism, clutch, MVP, all-star, and lastly championships that’s why he defines “the greatest of all time”.